Serving as a contractor (Eagle Health) on the COVID-19 Response Team in the USAID Bureau for Global Health to provide technical expertise on COVID-19 vaccine confidence and uptake globally.
Behavior change communication expert
Infodemic manager and trainer
Strategic health communications advisor
Behavior change communication expert
Infodemic manager and trainer
Strategic health communications advisor
I'm Elisabeth Wilhelm, an award-winning global public health professional with deep experience in health communication, behavior change strategies, and infodemic management.
Expert in vaccine confidence and demand promotion strategic development and management
Fostered global field of infodemic management in public health during COVID-19
Planned and led national-level health strategies and campaigns
Implemented behavior change strategies, campaigns and implementation science projects
Content and strategy development for digital health content, tools and interventions
Provided expert support to Ministries of Health on outbreak and immunization campaigns
Serving as a contractor (Eagle Health) on the COVID-19 Response Team in the USAID Bureau for Global Health to provide technical expertise on COVID-19 vaccine confidence and uptake globally.
As a consultant, build infodemic management strategy to address vaccine misinformation and support global vaccine demand to protect children from vaccine-preventable diseases.
Served as civil servant and contractor, conducting implementation evaluation of vaccine communications, infodemic and demand projects in low and middle income countries. Deployed to lead domestic COVID-19 vaccine confidence work during COVID-19 vaccine introduction.
Served as a Global Health Corps fellow for first year of two-year stint supporting community engagement and behavior chance communications to support malaria elimination campaign and mass drug administration (MDA) research in Southern Province, Zambia.
Awarded M.A. in Communication
Awarded B.F.A in Writing for Publication, Performance and Media
Information Futures Lab at Brown University School of Public Health
Served at Advocacy & Communications Officer at PATH as part of a global health young leadership program
“Being confident in the vaccine and deciding to get vaccinated — those need to be voluntary, personal decisions,” said Elisabeth Wilhelm, a vaccine confidence strategist with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. “We ask people to think very, very carefully when they talk about incentives, whether it’s a bag of rice for your kid getting vaccinated in Nigeria or getting a coronavirus vaccine in your workplace in the United States. It is a lever that can be used — it just should not be the first that you pull on.”